Vasco André Barbosa Brandão's thesis defence entitled "Criteria for the identification and delineation of rural settlements: application of an algorithm as a system for decision support in rural planning in Galicia, Spain."

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On December 16, 2013 Vasco André Brandão Barbosa, a native of Portugal architect, student at the University of Santiago de Compostela and collaborator in the Land Laboratory research group, defended his doctoral thesis in Lugo entitled "Criteria for the identification and delineation of rural settlements: application of an algorithm as a system for decision support in rural planning in Galicia, Spain."

The PhD. thesis was supervised by Professor Rafael Crecente and Professor Inés Santé Riveira of the University of Santiago de Compostela and Professor José Ferreira Neto Ambrósio of the Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil. The PhD. thesis proposes the definition of criteria for rural settlements on the basis of study the territory of Galicia. It tries to define alternative criteria to those in the current Land Law 2/2010 and that are more strict and equitable. The application of these criteria is made through an algorithm developed in collaboration with the Computer Architecture Group of the University of Corunna to build a system for decision support in planning rural Galicia. The definition of a new way of addressing these settlements allowed to obtain adequate results to the spatial patterns and morphological diversity that shapes and characterizes the Galician countryside.

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